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Welcome to the Office of International Programs

Faced with an unaffordable health care system that leaves millions uninsured, a mounting climate crisis, failing schools, a fractured social safety net, high unemployment and growing deficits, many US citizens and policy makers are searching for new approaches to public policy. Do the economically advanced democracies of the European Union offer us viable models for reform? To explore these questions, the Center for European Studies at Rutger s is launching Lessons from Europe, a two-year series of events exploring what we can learn from the experiences of European democracries in addressing our common 21st Century policy challenges.

Steven Hill, program director at the New America Foundation, will launch the series with a lecture on his new book, Europe's Promise: Why the European Way is the Best Hope in an Insecure Age.